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Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week's startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the p

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It’s only been a couple of months since OpenAI's ChatGPT exploded into the public consciousness, and it already feels like our news feeds will never be the same again. Whether it's headlines about AI startups securing massive funding rounds or Twitter threads about how you should be u

Japanese marketing tech firm Geniee, part of the SoftBank Group, has paid about $70 million in cash to acquire the revenue optimization platform Zelto (formerly known as AdPushup), a person familiar with the matter said, delivering 40 times return to a number of angel investors in the startup that

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Climate change is a problem important and pressing enough that investors have begun to grasp the opportunities that arise when trying to solve it. Now, they've started to cast their nets wider for other, adjacent opportunities. Tech that serves to conserve the oceans while using it to replace o

It seems like only yesterday that I wrote about Gable’s $12 million Series A, but it was, in fact, two days ago. The company is building an interesting product in the world of remote work, and I was curious how the founders were able to convince investors to part with a big pile of dough. Ga

Despite the premise of open source software distribution being “free,” multibillion dollar companies like RedHat, MongoDB, GitLab and Elastic have already broken ground building profitable businesses with open source at their core. But is it possible for a smaller open source project to

Wunderkind, a platform that enables brands to target web visitors through emails, texts and other digital advertising formats, today announced that it raised $76 million in a Series C round led by Neuberger Berman, the financial services company. Wunderkind’s newly appointed CEO, Bill Ingram,

High employee turnover is often a hint that a company's human resources strategy isn't working, but it's also difficult for managers to identify who is thinking of leaving. HR Signal wants to make retention easier by using algorithms to predict which employees are most likely to seek an